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Wendy mark
Wendy Mark is a painter and printmaker known
primarily for her work in monotype. Mark began
her career as a writer and often combines her art
with literature, producing limited edition books
with poets and writers such as Mark Strand,
Charles Simic, Paul Muldoon, David St. John, as
well as Adam Gopnik and Louis Menand.
She has had numerous solo exhibitions in New
York at ACA Galleries, Forum Gallery and Lori
Bookstein Fine Art. Her monotypes were in-
cluded in the historical exhibition at The Smith-
sonian Institution “Singular Impressions: The
Monotype in America.” Her work has also been
shown at The Lyman Allyn Museum in Connecti-
cut, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art in
Japan. Mark’s monotypes are in the collections of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Li-
brary, the New York Public Library and numerous
other museums.
In her artwork, Mark is influenced by both
17
th century metaphysical poetry and by the Ital-
ian Renaissance and Dutch Landscape painters.
She sees her art as the re-expression of concepts
and images from those words and paintings.
Wendy Mark was born in New York City in
1950
and currently lives and works there.
graham nicksOn
Born in England, Nickson studied at Camberwell
School of Arts and Crafts (BA) and the Royal Col-
lege of Art in London (MA), graduating in
1972
.
He was based in Italy from
1972
–
74
, and since
1976
has resided in New York City where he has
been a faculty member since
1988
and is currently
Dean of the New York Studio School. Nickson is
also the originator of the internationally renowned
“Drawing Marathon.”
Nickson has worked, exhibited and taught ex-
tensively in the United States and abroad, and is
the recipient of numerous international prizes in-
cluding the Prix de Rome, The Harkness Fellow-
ship at Yale University, the Guggenheim
Fellowship, and the Ingram Merrill Fellowship.
Nickson’s recent solo exhibitions include the
Naples Museum of Art, (
2007
); Boca Raton Mu-
seum of Art, Florida, and the Lillehammer Art
Museum in Norway (
2007
). His work is in the
permanent collections of many institutions in-
cluding the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The
Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery,
DC; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University;
The Albright Knox Gallery; the Neuberger Mu-
seum of Art; the Frye Art Museum, Seattle; The
Lillehammer Art Museum, Norway; and the Boca
Raton Museum of Art.
A conscientious observer of nature, Nickson
has been an important influence on contemporary
figurative painting, both as a painter and a
teacher.